High Noon (1952) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error A marshall, personally compelled to face a returning deadly enemy, finds that his own town refuses to help him. Director: Carl Foreman (screenplay), John W. Cunningham (magazine story "The Tin Star") Stars: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC a list of 46 titles created 18 May 2014 a list of 28 titles created 8 months ago a list of 25 titles created 5 months ago a list of 31 titles created 2 months ago a list of 34 titles created 2 weeks ago Search for " High Noon " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Won 4 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 10 nominations.

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It seems Kane may have to face Miller alone, as well as the rest of Miller's gang, who are waiting for him at the station... Written by Man_With_No_Name_126 When these hands point straight up...the excitement starts! See more » Genres: Rated PG for some western violence, and smoking | See all certifications » Parents Guide: 30 July 1952 (USA) See more » Also Known As: A la hora señalada See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia Gary Cooper , "B" movie producer Robert L. Lippert and screenwriter Carl Foreman were set to go into a production company together, after the success of this film. John Wayne and Ward Bond ordered Cooper to back out of the deal, as HUAC was preparing to "blacklist" Foreman. Shortly afterward, Lippert was made "persona non grata" by the Screen Actors Guild, which destroyed his independent production company. See more » Goofs In the two shots where we see Kane and then Harvey enter the livery, the sky is covered with clouds. In all other scenes, the sky is clear.

See more » Quotes [to Deputy Harvey Pell] Joe : I knew you had guts but I never figured you for brains. It takes a pretty smart man to know when to back away. (New Hope, Alabama USA) – See all my reviews This is the definitive Western. There are other excellent Westerns of course ("The Unforgiven," "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid," "The Searchers," "My Darling Clementine," and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" come immediately to mind), but none tops this one. Even though the difference in age between Gary Cooper and Grace Kelley makes the thought of their marriage seem a little kinky, it's easy to buy into the story. Katy Jurado is sexy, Lloyd Bridges is callow, and the townspeople mean well, but when push comes to shove, they reveal their cowardice. (If you remember the scene in "Blazing Saddles" in which Van Johnson says, "Howard Johnson is right," you'll almost certainly laugh at an inappropriate moment in "High Noon." ) "High Noon" is a textbook example of the storyteller's art. The drama begins with the opening credits and doesn't let up until everyone's true character has been laid bare.

This one is suspenseful and thrilling, and I find more to admire with every viewing. 87 of 127 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes What's the Big Deal?: High Noon (1952) - seattlepi.com What's the Big Deal?: High Noon (1952) By ERIC D. SNIDER, FILM.COM Updated 10:00 pm, Monday, October 11, 2010 In High Noon, Gary Cooper 's taciturn lawman must face a posse of murderers when the clock strikes twelve. The situation is rife with dramatic possibilities -- and, it turns out, with political allegories and commentaries. Has it stood the test of time? Why is this "ordinary" Western a big deal? Do not forsake me, oh my darling, and we'll investigate. The praise: The film was nominated for seven Oscars and won four: best actor (Gary Cooper), editing, musical score, and original song.

(It was the first time the song award had gone to a film that wasn't a musical.) The other nods were for best picture, director, and screenplay; if it's any consolation, the movie that won best picture was The Greatest Show on Earth, generally regarded as one of the worst "best pictures" in Oscar history. The film also won four Golden Globes (including a best supporting actress trophy for Katy Jurado, the first Mexican performer to win a Globe). It ranked #33 on the American Film Institute 's 1998 list of the best American movies ever made, and #27 on the 2007 revised list. The context: Political activists tend to believe that what they're doing is more right and noble than what their opponents are doing. This is true even when two groups are acting in direct opposition to one another. In the early 1950s, there were Americans who believed that communism must be stopped at all costs, and that anyone who was sympathetic to the ideals of communism must be identified and closely watched. This "red scare" led to the House Un-American Activities Committee calling Hollywood actors, writers, and directors to testify about their knowledge of communist leanings among their peers.

To name names was, in HUAC's view, the right thing to do. At the same time, there were people who believed that HUAC's tactics were unduly heavy-handed, and that the right thing to do was to stand up against such bullying and refuse to name names. The film On the Waterfront (1954) was partially intended as director Elia Kazan and writer Budd Schulberg 's justification for cooperating with HUAC. The film's hero, played by Marlon Brando , wrestles with the question of whether to tell the police the names of the criminals operating on the docks, eventually determining that it would be immoral not to do so. High Noon had been made, at least in part, with the opposite view in mind. The screenwriter, Carl Foreman , was in the process of writing High Noon in 1951, when he was called to testify before HUAC. Foreman had indeed been a member of the Communist Party , but had grown disillusioned and quit, and now he refused to answer any questions from the committee. He was blacklisted for this decision and eventually moved to England, unable to work in Hollywood anymore.

In the meantime, the turmoil frustrated Foreman, and he worked those frustrations into his High Noon screenplay. (Though High Noon is officially an adaptation of a short story called "The Tin Star," Foreman said he'd come up with the plot himself, noticed that "The Tin Star" had some coincidental similarities, and bought the rights to the short story to avoid legal problems.) Foreman's controversial decision not to name names angered his producer and business partner, Stanley Kramer , who had named names. Kramer tried to have Foreman removed from the movie altogether, but its star, Gary Cooper -- who was conservative and anti-communist but didn't agree with HUAC's tactics -- stood beside Foreman. The writer remained involved, though he lost his credit as co-producer. After the film was a success, Kramer tended to exaggerate how much he, Kramer, had been involved in its production -- much to the consternation of its actual director, Fred Zinnemann . It's easy to watch High Noon and see Foreman's point of view. A decent, upright sheriff played by Gary Cooper could flee when he learns a man he sent to prison is coming with a posse to get revenge on him.

But instead he chooses to stay and fight, to stand up for truth and justice, even though the townspeople are too chicken to back him up. The parallels are simple: Cooper is Foreman, the bad guys are HUAC, the townspeople are Hollywood types like Kramer and Kazan. But that interpretation is only obvious if you know the film's background, and even then it's not inescapable. None of the contemporary reviews I can find describe the film as having any political component at all. ( Here is the New York Times review, which does allude to the question of whom to credit for the film's excellence; here is Variety's review.) In the book Showdown at High Noon: Witch-Hunts, Critics, and the End of the Western, Jeremy Byman writes: The film's abstractness permitted many interpretations. In the Midwest, for instance, Cooper was seen as a symbol of Eisenhower working against the communist threat, a view Eisenhower himself presumably adopted with his numerous White House screenings of the film.

Foreman's enemies could as easily identify their hero, Senator Joseph McCarthy , with [Cooper's character] Will Kane : "Kane's unpopularity for choosing to fight rather than abide with Hadleyville's do-nothing policy is akin to McCarthy's self-image of a crusader risking 'smear and abuse' from those upset by his forthright approach." ... Still others saw it as an antipacifist tract, and later, as an inspiration for Clint Eastwood 's supposedly anti-civil-libertarian Dirty Harry, which also ends with a badge being thrown away. There was even a foreign policy interpretation: Cooper's marshal (like America itself) had wanted peace after clearing up the town five years before (that is, World War II), and reluctantly must buckle on his gunbelt again in the face of new aggression (the Korean War); eventually his pacifist wife (American isolationists) must see where her true duty lies and support him. (p. 94) Everyone had a reason to like or dislike High Noon's message. John Wayne later called it "the most un-American thing I've ever seen in my whole life," and said he was proud to have played a part in getting Carl Foreman blacklisted.

Meanwhile, the Soviet Union's Pravda -- presumably John Wayne's political polar opposite -- attacked the film as "a glorification of the individual." As Bart Simpson said, you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. The movie: The year is, oh, 1870-something. Will Kane (Gary Cooper), the beloved marshal of this small frontier town, is getting married to the lovely Amy Fowler ( Grace Kelly ) and resigning from his post. The new sheriff will arrive tomorrow. But wait! Bad old Frank Miller , a murderer sent up the river by Kane some years ago, has been released from prison and is headed here to seek revenge. Three of his buddies are already in town, waiting for the noon train. Everyone tells Kane to just get outta here already; Miller has no beef with anyone else; if he's gone when Miller arrives there probably won't be any trouble. (Probably.) Kane doesn't want to run. He wants to settle this, and he'd like for some of his friends to help him. What it influenced: Is this the first movie to have a heroic main character who's supposed to be quitting but has to do One Last Job on his final day of work? Probably not.

Surely one of the earliest examples of that familiar device, though. And note that he doesn't actually have to do this job. He does it because he feels morally obligated. High Noon is often described as taking place in "real time," but that isn't strictly true. The movie is 85 minutes long, and the events contained in it occupy 100 minutes, from 10:35 a.m. to about 12:15 p.m. Still, it's true that the action is continuous. There are no edits suggesting that time has passed since the previous scene. If you weren't watching the clocks shown on screen and comparing them to the counter on your DVD player, you'd assume the 85-minute movie covered exactly 85 minutes in the lives of the characters. What's important is that High Noon has the feel of real time. It introduces a deadline, then constantly reminds us of how much time remains before the deadline arrives. The "ticking clock" scenario is popular in fiction, especially when used by criminals: You have 24 hours to deliver the ransom money; a bomb will go off in 90 minutes; etc.

Very few movies before High Noon had been told in real time -- Alfred Hitchcock 's Rope (1948)was one -- and indeed, according to Webster's dictionary , the term "real time" wasn't even coined until 1953. The real-time TV show 24 bore a remarkable resemblance to High Noon. Where High Noon would keep showing us clocks to remind us of the looming deadline, 24 would simply put the current time on the screen. 24's signature ticking clock sound effect is reminiscent of a more creative device in High Noon, where a pendulum is shown swinging back and forth and the musical score exactly matches it. I was most fascinated to notice that at High Noon's climactic moment -- the arrival of the train -- the film cuts to all the different characters, spread throughout the town, each responding in a different way, as the music becomes more intense. That's exactly what happened near the end of each episode of 24, except that 24 would use split-screen to show them all at once.

( Here's the scene from High Noon.) High Noon was part of a new breed of Western, the kind that didn't have a lot of gunfighting, and where there weren't any marauding Indians. David A. Cook writes in A History of Narrative Film: The heroic, idealized, epic Western of John Ford and his imitators remained popular in the 1950s but was gradually replaced by what was called the 'adult Western.' This genre, whose prototypes were The Gunfighter (1950) and High Noon (1952) concentrated on the psychological or moral conflicts of the individual protagonist in relation to his society, rather than creating the poetic archetypes of order [that were] characteristic of Ford. (p. 411.) What to look for: One thing you should try not to look at is the fact that Gary Cooper is 50 years old and Grace Kelly, playing his wife, is 22. Hard not to notice, though. Cooper was in poor health anyway, and director Fred Zinnemann filmed him without makeup so that the character's worries would be more visible. Will Kane is unquestionably a hero, and unquestionably right.

His name is Will; his first dialogue is "I do": This is a man who does things, who will do things, who does not allow the right thing to go undone. Given the film's many possible interpretations, it's enlightening to try to keep all of them in mind when you watch it. Foreman's liberal anti-HUAC view is easy to spot, but it's far from overwhelming. In fact, you could make a case for the film being quite conservative, as Manfred Wiedhorn does, if only for rhetorical purposes, in this essay : It shows a community cast into fear and trembling by a criminal justice system that lacks the will to put dangerous men away for good, either by capital punishment or by life sentences without parole. In numerous camera shots, an anguished Gary Cooper is seen walking the streets of the town, worried, even fearful, over the upcoming rendezvous and frustrated by the cowardice of the townspeople. Here you have -- the movie implies repeatedly -- the results of liberal social experimentation. Even the local judge is hightailing it, lest Frank Miller wreak vengeance on him for passing sentence.

If what Will Kane is doing is definitely "right," then notice the varying degrees of "wrongness" exhibited by the other characters. Some flat-out refuse to help him. One man says he'll help -- "I was hoping people would feel that way," Will says; "What other way is there?" the man nobly replies -- only to change his mind when he discovers he was the sole volunteer. He only wants to do the "right thing" when success is guaranteed, when there is safety in numbers. Moreover, it turns out there are people in town who aren't on Will Kane's side at all, friends of Frank Miller who think the marshal brought his problems on himself and "needs some comeuppance." Then there's Will's wife, a Quaker and a pacifist, both for religious and practical reasons. Her brother and father fought in the Civil War. "They were on the right side, but that didn't matter when the shooting started." She fears her husband, right though he may be, will end up just as dead as if he were wrong. Her point of view is understandable, though eventually she makes concessions that go along with the conservative interpretation.

(The same concessions were required of anti-killing types in the recent Rambo and The A - Team.) What's the big deal: Wiedhorn's essay comparing the film's liberal and conservative interpretations includes this statement: "It is oft said that what separates a work of art from mere bestseller schlock is that the former is relevant in each age while the latter dies with the fads and fashions of the day." By that definition, High Noon, while a "bestseller," is also art. A modern viewer can watch it and draw messages from it -- unintended yet wholly supportable by the film's content -- that are different from what viewers in 1952 saw, and even those contemporary viewers may have taken it to mean many different things. It's useful to ask the author what he had in mind when he wrote it, and that's the answer you'd have to go with if you were forced to nail down one "true" meaning. But what makes High Noon great is that its message, whatever one considers it to be, doesn't get in the way of its being a taut, suspenseful, and entertaining drama. Further reading: In addition to the articles already linked, check out Tim Dirks' thorough analysis .

* * * * High Noon Movie - Gary Cooper | Western Classic Movies Will Kane have to stand alone at High Noon? All the odds are against him. • The timing for the movie “High Noon” is very close to the actual time that things unfold in the film. Gary Cooper has roughly 1 ½ hours to prepare for the showdown which is very close to the running time for the movie. This was intentionally done by the director in order to add to the movie’s suspense and it works. Quite interestingly, when United Artists executives saw the initial version of “High Noon” after it was completed, they were not happy with the film. They thought that it would be a commercial flop. So, they had the movie re-edited to more tightly to fit with the real timing for the showdown. Also, they added Tex Ritter’s title song “High Noon” throughout key parts of the movie to add drama. All of this additional editing paid off as “High Noon” became a box-office success. Tex Ritter’s title song became a hit and the movie won numerous awards.

• Gary Cooper won both the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his convincing performance as Marshal Will Kane in “High Noon.” • Tex Ritter’s song “High Noon” was enormously popular and became a hit. It is believed that the popularity of this song also helped to make the movie a box office success. The song “High Noon” won an Academy Award for Best Original Song in a movie. • John Wayne was not offered the leading role in “High Noon.” Other actors that were offered the part but turned it down were Charlton Heston, Gregory Peck and Marlon Brando. Not much is recorded as to why Charlton Heston and Marlon Brando didn’t want to star in this western. Gregory Peck reportedly turned down the role because he had recently done the movie “The Gunfighter” and he thought that the roles were too similar. • Katy Jurado plays Helen Ramirez in “High Noon.” She became the first Mexican Actress to win a Golden Globe Award when she won the Best Supporting Actress award for her role in “High Noon.” Jurado was a very talented and successful actress during her career.

She performed in a lot of classic westerns like Broken Lance, One-Eyed Jacks and Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid. • Director Fred Zinneman passionately fought against colorization of “High Noon.” Eventually, however, Ted Turner colorized the movie to show on his cable channel. The original movie was shot in Black and White. • There is a sequel to High Noon that was made 28 years later and shown on television. The title of the sequel was “High Noon Part 2 – The Return of Will Kane.” Lee Majors stars as Will Kane in this version. The sequel did not have as much success as the original western. • “High Noon” is one of the few movies in the United States to be honored in the U.S. Library of Congress National Film Registry. It was chosen in 1989 for this distinct honor. • “High Noon” won four Academy Awards, including one for the famous High Noon hit song by Tex Ritter named “Do Not Forsake Me, O My Darling.’ The awards were: Best Actor (Gary Cooper), Best Film Editing, Best Song “High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me) and Best Movie Music Scoring.

• “High Noon” also won four Golden Globe Awards, including the first Golden Globe Award ever given to a Mexican Actress – Katy Jurado for her portrayal as Helen Ramirez in the film. The awards were: Best Actor (Gary Cooper), Best Supporting Actress (Katy Jurado), Best Motion Picture Score and Best Cinematography. Will Kane | Heroes Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia ~ Will Kane Gary Cooper as Will Kane in High Noon. William "Will" Kane is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the film, High Noon. He is played by Gary Cooper in the 1952 film, by Lee Majors in a made-for-TV sequel, High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane (produced in 1980, 28 years after the original movie was released), and by Tom Skerritt in 2000's High Noon, which was entirely re-worked for cable television. Biography In High Noon, Will Kane is a town marshal of the fictional Hadleyville, New Mexico. It is both his wedding day and his last day as a marshal.

He is about to leave town with his bride, Amy, to start a new life as a store clerk when the clerk of the telegraph office brings bad news: a man he sent to prison some years earlier, Frank Miller, has been released from prison and is arriving on the noon train. Kane, and the townsfolk who remember Miller, know Miller's visit is for one reason: revenge. Upon his conviction years earlier, Miller swore he would kill Will Kane. Kane's friends tell him to leave town, which he does briefly, but he feels that running away is not a solution, so he returns to face Miller and the gang. Will tries to find support from his friends and others, but none wants to help - they all tell him to leave town or offer reasons why they can't (or won't) help. Will chooses to stand up against this gang alone, even though it could result in his own death. The four men arrive: Frank Miller, his brother Ben and two other men, Jack Colby and Jim Pierce. After a brief gun fight in town, Kane kills Ben and Colby. His new bride, Amy, abandons her non-violent Quaker lifestyle to shoot Pierce.

Frank then takes Amy hostage and threatens to kill her unless he gives himself up. Kane gives himself up but Amy uses a distraction to allow Kane to shoot and kill Frank Miller. As townspeople come out to offer congratulations, Kane takes off his tin star and throws it in the dirt. Contrary to popular myth, he does not step on it. The movie ends with Kane and his bride driving out of town to destinations unknown. Description Throughout the movie we see Kane's emotions range from the joy of his wedding, to concern, disappointment, anger, fear and even his own mortality as he writes out his will before the noon train arrives. Despite the iconic and Oscar-winning portrayal of the character by Gary Cooper (see below), "Cooper was not producer Stanley Kramer's first choice to play Marshal Will Kane." Nevertheless, Will Kane is "one of Cooper's most famous roles." Lee Majors explained that he accepted the role in the sequel, because "I've always admired Gary Cooper. And I wanted to do a Western again." Ron Hardy, who directed the recent remake, argued that Tom Skerrit was an ideal actor to take over the role in the remake. Hardy explained that like "Cooper, he is Mr. Everyday.

People know who Tom Skerritt is. They don't treat him like a superstar. They feel he's approachable." Legacy In 1952, Gary Cooper won a Golden Globe Award and his second Academy Award for his portrayal of Will Kane. While The Washington Post refers to the character as "A Classic Role," Entertainment Weekly ranked the character fourteenth on its list of the top twenty "All-Time Coolest Heroes in Pop Culture" in April 2009. The magazine included him on its list because in "High Noon, Gary Cooper's retiring lawman faces down a killer and his goons despite being deserted by the rest of the town." Entertainment Weekly went on to cite his most heroic move as when "Kane's last ally gets cold feet, he tells him to go to his family, and then refuses the help of a teenager." Kane was also ranked by the American Film Institute as the fifth greatest movie hero of all time. Nevertheless, although Cooper's performance has received considerable praise as indicated above, Majors and Skerritt's performances have not been so positively received. The New York Daily News referred to Lee Majors as "sadly miscast" as Kane in the sequel.

Entertainment Weekly also contrasted Cooper with Skerritt to Skerritt's disadvantage. Reviewer Ken Tucker reminisces upon "the all-purpose image of Cooper that's taken hold in the popular imagination: the gaunt, chiseled stone face, a stoic deadpan that rendered Cooper the leading-man, romantic-actor equivalent of Buster Keaton....By contrast, Skerritt saunters through the new Noon as if he were still the easygoing, ironic lawman of Picket Fences." High Noon (1952) High Noon Staring: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Lloyd Bridges, Harry Morgan, Ian MacDonald, Lon Chaney Jr. Oscars: 4 wins, 7 nominations AFI 100 years, 100 _____ tributes: Heros & Villains (#5, Hero Will Kane); Thrills (#20); Songs (#25, Do not Foresake Me (Oh My Darlin) ); Movies (#33) Runtime: 1h 25min Best quote: "The commandments say "Thou shalt not kill," but we hire men to go out and do it for us. The right and the wrong seem pretty clear here.

But if you're asking me to tell my people to go out and kill and maybe get themselves killed, I can't. I'm sorry..." - Dr. Mahin, Minister Marshal Will Kane (Gary Cooper) has just married his sweetheart, Amy Fowler (Grace Kelly). They are about to leave the town of Hadleyville when a telegram comes. It states that Frank Miller (Ian MacDonald) is alive, having escaped death row, and is comming back to town to kill Will Kane, The man who put him in jail. Comming in on the next train, Miller is joined by three of his posse who also detest Kane and want him dead. Will Kane has only one hour to round up his own posse to try and stop Frank Miller. His only deputy, Harvey Pell (Lloyd Bridges) quits on him, and no one else has courage enough to stand up to Miller's gang. Kane is going to have to go it alone when that train comes in... at High Noon. Personal Comments Cary Cooper is spectacular in High Noon, and has amazing chemistry with all of his co-stars, including Harry Morgan and Lloyd Bridges. Grace Kelly plays his wife with with equal passion.

I also LOVE the panoramic pull-back shot of Will Kane wandering through the town just before High Noon. It is a wonderful camera angle and adds a great deal depth and dimension to the picture. And how about the ending? Will Kane takes care of business and then, whenm the townspeople come out to congratulate him, he and his wife leave without one word spoken. He doesn't want their praises; they wouldn't help him in his time ouf need, so he doesn't want anything back in return. A classic ending. On Second Thought... Having watched this film again, I am taken by how complex it is. On one level, we have the frustrated, agonized Will Kane who is scared at the prospect of facing Frank Miller, and on another level we have the brave Will Kane who tries to rally the town to stop Miller. Whatever you belive the film to be, a classic western or an analogy to the then-current communist witch-hunts, one thing is certain. This is probably the best western ever made. It has the beautiful girl, the hero, the bad guy, horses and guns. The elements mix just right. And then there is Gary.

Gary Cooper plays the part of Marshall Will Kane extremely well, balancing the scared Kane with the tough. The suspence is killer... as the time slowly ticks away to high noon, as Kane is sweating more and more, we sweat more and more untill the final gun battle. Every time he looks at the clock, he worries. We worry too. Like John Wayne in his films, this role and Gary Cooper have become synonimous with Male heroism. Like Will Smith in I Am Legend, the hero, Gary Cooper takes on the bad guys alone and wins. It is a film where you want to stand up and cheer. And you should. This is probably the best western ever made, and definatly one of the best performances in cinema history. 09-07-2008 Plot: Visual Effects: Floyd Crosby, father of rock ledgend David Crosby, did superb job on the camera, especially the panoramic pull-back shot of Will Kane wandering through the town just before High Noon. Classic. Sound: Whicked score, and the song, Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin that won the Oscar is amazingly well sung by Tex Ritter. The song is as powerful today as it was back then.

It is amazing to hear the song at the beginning of the picture and be lured in to Will Kane's world. Great, great song. Character Development: Atmosphere: Westerns are always easier to get into that some other genre's of films; it's not always clear why, though. Realism: Most westerns are "hollywoodized," this one included, but not much. And by "Hollywoodized," I mean a flashy western flick with big stars and a predictable outcome. Warren�s Rating: Movies it was nominated with for Best Picture: *The Greatest Show on Earth, (1952); Ivanhoe, (1952); Moulin Rouge, (1952); The Quiet Man, (1952) FINAL RATING Is the movie worth your time to watch? 05-06-04 Nominated for: Best Actor in a Leading Role, Marshal Will Kane, High Noon Nomination: 2/5 (acting), 2/6 (total; 1 Honorary Oscar included); Win: 2nd Cary Cooper is spectacular in High Noon, and well deserving of the Oscar. You can see the pure emotion comming from Cooper in almsot every scene.

(He had a bleeding ulcer throughout the filming of High Noon, which may have given his performance a boost.) No one else could make the role of Marshall Will Kane any better than the way that Gary Cooper played the role. It is a special role and one that only comes along once in ablue moon. Kudos to Gary for his wonderful performance. High Noon Essay By: July • Essay • 1,034 Words • April 17, 2010 • 291 Views Page 1 of 5 High Noon For my at home movie I watched Hang em’ High directed by Ted Post. It is considered a spaghetti western that was made in America. In comparison to the film we watched in class, High Noon directed by Fred Zinnemann. These two westerns had many similarities and differences. From differences in how the movie was actually shot, to the similarity of how both of the main characters are loners, these two movies connect all over on many different levels. High Noon was the story of a very brave man, Will Kane played by Gary Cooper, which is giving up his Sheriff position to become a homemaker with him wife.

Just when they are leaving to start their new life together, there is news that four outlaws are coming back into town to seek revenge on Kane. High Noon, the title of the movie, is exactly when the four outlaw characters are meeting up in the town, and with the time getting closer, Kane realizes that his friends are harder to find. Almost every person he asks to help him deserts him, and the few that say they will help either back out at ht last minuet or are incompetent. Even his new wife decides she will leave this town on the noon train, with or without him. When “high noon” does finally come Kane has no one to help him and he has to go and battle these four outlaws by his self. At the last possible second with some help from Helen Ramirez, an ex-love character played by Katy Jurado, she helps Amy realize she can save her husband and if she really loved him she would. Amy runs back into town and helps her husband kill two of the four guys, without her he may not have won the gun fight.

At the end of the movie Sheriff Kane throws down his badge in front of the whole town in disgrace, he doesn’t even need to say a word, and he and Amy ride off together to start their new life. In the movie Hang em’ High, Clint Eastwood plays the main character Jed Cooper. A group of men accuse him of stealing cattle and killing one of their neighbors. When he can’t prove to them his innocence, they hang him. It just so happens that a U.S. Marshall was in the area and he saved Cooper’s life. Then the Marshall brought him to the judge to see if he is guilty. Eventually, it was discovered that Cooper was innocent, and had bought the cattle from a criminal who killed the owner then sold the cattle to him. Cooper was finally released, but he now wanted revenge on the men who tried to lynch him. The judge tells Cooper to give their descriptions to one of his marshal’s and they will try to find them, but Cooper feels that it’s not enough. The judge warns Cooper about taking the law into his own hands.

When he told the judge that he was a formal law man, and he knows the law, the judge offers Cooper a job as a Marshall, and he takes the job. After accepting the job, he goes around and tried to gather up all men that tried to hang him. Along the way he has many side adventures, and tests the limits of right and wrong. In the end after a good old fashion western shoot out, Cooper goes back to town and decides that he’s done, or so we think. The judge made him realize that what he really wanted was revenge on the men, not a “Happily ever after” ending with Rachel.

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Question: What character was played by Gary Cooper in 'High Noon'?
Answer: Will Kane